Crossover Fan Fiction / Devil Hunter Yohko Fan Fiction / Mermaid's Saga Fan Fiction / Ah My Goddess Fan Fiction / Ranma 1/2 Fan Fiction / Sailor Moon Fan Fiction / Tenchi Muyo Fan Fiction ❯ Ranma Crossing Over too the Wild Side ❯ The Morning After ( Chapter 9 )
[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]
Disclaimer: I don't own any of these characters, but I'm not trying to make any money off this so I guess it's OK then.
This is a Ranma continuation and multi-cross-over with Sailor Moon, Tenchi Muyo!, Mermaid Saga, Ah Megami-sama and Mamono Hunter Yohko.
This is my first time writing a fan fiction, so please review and tell me what you think.
Ranma was having trouble waking up. There was light coming in the window and he could smell breakfast, so why hadn't someone splashed him with cold water or thrown him out the window yet? Rolling over to look around Ranma doesn't recognize the room he's in.
Engaging his mind, Ranma thinks, 'Ok, not at the Tendo's or Mom's house. What did I do yesterday? ... Oh Kami, the WEDDING! I remember everything going to hell and Akane hitting me into the pond then Shampoo-Neko! ... Then I was in the bath with Rei-chan. / Man, is she Hot or what? / Yeah, I usually don't get a nosebleed, and she didn't even hit me or scream HENTAI like Akane does. That's right, I went Neko and she found me and brought me home with her. / She's your new fiancee. / Right, and I met her friends. / V-chan was so pissed. / Yeah, I apologized, but I've got to make it up to her, I pulled some really nasty tricks on her in when we were in England. / At least she seems to have given up on revenge. / Well, I guess she decided that I've had more than enough suffering. I can't believe I broke down in front of those girls. / Scared the hell out of them. / Yeah, Usagi threw up, V-chan broke down and cried, Makoto, . . . she was praying for me, and Rei-chan came over and hugged me until I felt better. / Akane isn't the #1 fiancee anymore. / Well, now I've got a year to get rid of the other fiancees. / I smell breakfast! / Time to get up.'
After a quick wash up and a dip in the furo to change back Ranma gets dressed just in time to join Rei and her grandfather for breakfast.
"Ranma-kun are you ready to start the Neko-tolerance training again?" the elderly priest asks.
"Kami, I have to do that again?" Ranma complains, "Didn't you find anything else to help, like a meditation technique or hypnosis, anything but c-cats."
"I only started looking yesterday, I made a few calls to some associates of mine, I'm hoping that they may have dealt with something like this before." Grandpa Hino says. "One of them is coming over soon, he is your best chance since he has been around for more than 700 years."
"He's not all shrunken and shriveled up is he?"
"No, he doesn't look his age. Actually he disguises his youth and assumes a new identity every so often. His life force is bonded to that of a majestic tree that keeps him young, and gifts him with some mystic powers. He came to Tokyo yesterday when he saw the news of a Neko-Onna on the loose, so maybe he has had some experience with the Neko-Ken."
"However," Rei interrupts them, "you promised the police a demonstration of the Neko-Ken, so Minako-chan is bringing Artemis over in an hour. Nabiki-san is also coming over with your Mom and a few others."
"Alright Rei-chan, I'll do it, but it takes quite a bit to force me into the Neko-Ken anymore. I'm not sure a regular c-c- feline can scare me enough anymore. The last two times it has been Shampoo, my amazon fiancee, in her c-c- mouse chaser form. And she was right in my face with her c-claws in me, and y-yowling at me. The time before that it was a t-TIGER. I just don't think a normal c-c-c house pet will scare me enough anymore."
"Well, it seems like the Neko-Tolerance training did some good after all, right Rei-chan."
"That's true, I doubt Shampoo could have scared me enough if not for her angry Battle Aura, and the fact that I had just been attacked with bombs and a Mallet-User having a serious conniption fit over the wedding disaster."
"We'll have to come up with something to make Artemis scary. I'll give Mina a call and have come over early."
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Rei had excused herself to call Minako, but brought out her Senshi Communicator to call up her Princess first. ... And then called up Minako on the phone while waiting for Usagi to wake up and answer her communicator.
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Luna woke up instantly when she heard the buzz of the Comm on the desk. After checking Usagi and seeing that she was dead to the world still, she jumped to the desk and answered the Comm to see Rei.
“Ohayo Mars, what do you need the Princess for this early in the morning? ... .... You want to tell your fiancé about being Sailor Mars. I didn’t even know you had a boyfriend after Yuuichiro took off with that, uh, what did you call her? A die-job teeni-bopper little idol singer slut? ... ... Sorry, I shouldn’t have brought that up. But I loved your comeback when she said your legs were tied together at the knees, telling her that she knees were locked wide open with a spreader-bar for anyone was devastating, especially with those reporters there. ... ... OK, back to business. Who’s you fiancé and why does he need to know about Sailor Mars? ... ... But that was a Cat-GIRL that you took home yesterday! ... A sex-changing curse!? Are you on catnip Rei!? ... Oh, Usagi saw him demonstrate it yesterday. Well she didn’t tell me anything when she got back since it was so late. ... ... He Knows Minako was Sailor V!? How!? ... ... He used to fight her when she was in England! And you want to tell him/ ... ... Oh, OK, keeping his father out of jail. Wait! This is the boy that kept beating her up, insulting her, and embarrassing her that Artemis told me about!? She absolutely hates that guy. ... ... She actually forgave him? ... ... Couldn’t come up with any tortures that would compare with the way he was raised? ... ... His Own Father Taught Him the Neko-Ken!! ... And got him cursed to turn into a girl. ... Those are just the worst! ... ... His whole life is like that? Gimme another example. ... ... Venom resistance conditioning with deadly snakes. Right, Minako could torture him for years before he would even notice. ... ... His other fiancee beats him with a sledgehammer?! ... For almost two years! No wonder Minako just dropped it, she’s far too nice a girl. I can hardly imagine what this guy has been through. ... ... You want him to fight with us? What can he do besides the Neko-Ken? ... ... A battle aura that filled half the dining room? ... ... Scared you and your grandfather that bad hunh? ... ... His feet were ten centimeters off the floor!? Did you notice anything else from his aura? ... Well of course you noticed he was angry, I mean other uncontrolled effects from his battle aura. ... It would tell us some of what he can do with his ki. ... Hot and cold winds. ... Dishes levitating off the table. Any ozone or electrical arcing? ... No, well that is a pretty rare ki ability anyway. How about his martial arts ranking? ... Almost unbeaten over there in Nerima. Yeah, that’s impressive. ... ... You mean they get youma over in Nerima? I never knew that. ... ... Oh, he can actually track the youma’s ki like you can. You might as well tell him then, we could never hide our identities from him if he can do that. ... ... What, you didn’t know that your grandfather knew?! Why do you think we always meet at your shrine? ... ... Yeah, well remember the first thing you did when you met Usagi? ... ... That’s right you slapped a Ward on her forehead because you sensed something strange about her, and you never thought about your grandfather picking the Senshi out with their auras. ... Yeah, it does seem silly doesn’t it. I’ll let Usagi know when she wakes up. ... Later Mars.”
Luna thinks about Rei’s grandfather for a minute and realizes that the old man had twice actually had the enemy working in the shrine. ‘So much for his ki senses, he probably found out by spying on us then.’
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Rei puts away her Comm and then looks around to see if her grandfather was spying on her again. Not seeing him around she grabs the phone and dials up Minako’s house.
After a few rings a sleepy sounding Minako answers the phone. “Ohayo Mina-chan it’s Rei. ... ... I need you to come over with Artemis early. ... ... Well, I should explain when you get here. ... Yeah. ... Uh hunh. ... That’s right. ... ... OK then I’ll see you in about half an hour. ... Yeah. Bye.”
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Half an hour later Rei met Minako and Artemis out on the steps to the shrine.
“Ohayo. Sorry I had to get you two here this early.” Rei says as the climb up to her. “But since Ranma already knows about you being Sailor V, and has well developed ki senses it’s pretty useless trying to hide our Senshi identities from him. Besides we want him fighting with us if we can.”
“Yeah, sounds a lot better than fighting Him.” Minako says. “Having Ranma kicking ass on our side will be a very welcome turn around.”
“Eh heh, right.” Rei says nervously, remembering that her friend had been on the receiving end of Ranma’s martial arts skills before. “One word of warning, don’t do anything to upset Ranma while he is in the Neko-Ken.”
“You don’t need to tell me Rei.” Minako says. “Remember, I was the one who watched your cat-girl turn a monster into chopped meat.”
“Right right. I’ve seen Neko-chan reduce a tree to toothpicks, but you’ve seen him kill.” Rei says. “Big difference. Ranma can be scary enough without being a cat let me tell you. Me and Gramps teased him about his curse before you came over last night and set him off.”
“Oh really?” Minako asks, “What did he do that was so scary?”
“Nothing much,” Rei answers. “He just filled the dining room with his flaming red battle aura and hot wind as he levitated just off the floor and caused the plates to lift off the table while glaring at us and giving us what for.”
“Damn, that’s intense.” Artemis says. “Mina-chan can manage a red aura and hot wind, but Ranma’s sounds huge and includes Telekinesis and Levitation as well as the more common Pyrokinesis.”
“He can also do cold.” Rei tells him. “And I think he has control over the winds, not to mention what he can use that ki for in his martial arts.”
“Well, I know some of what he can do with it.” Minako says. “Even three years ago he could do incredible feats of speed and strength, and now he’s a legend in Nerima from what Makoto says.”
“Yeah, what is up with that?” Rei asks. “He’s not her infamous Sempai is he?”
“Heh heh heh, no he’s not.” Minako tells her. “He used to beat up her Sempai when they were in Junior High. I guess he teased and insulted the poor guy like he used to do with me, because the guy took off after Ranma on a quest for vengeance when Ranma left the neighborhood, and that was the last time Mako-chan ever saw her Sempai.”
“Then why was she looking at him with those starry eyes?” Rei demands. “You’d think she’d at least be a bit mad about that.”
“I think she recently got over her Sempai.” Minako explains. “He became obsessed with revenge and blamed everything bad in his life on Ranma. He was also obsessing over his rival’s fiancee and recently got hooked up with another girl.”
“Oh. That’s too bad.” Rei says while opening the door and letting Minako in. “How did Mako-chan find out about this?” She asks as she closes the door and leads Minako back to her bedroom.
“I guess that she read about it in those Nerima Newsletters that she gets.” Minako guesses. “That is where she got all that information about Ranma from.”
“I’ll have to borrow those from her.” Rei muses as she lets Minako and Artemis into her room. “Hide Artemis in the closet. I’ll go get Ranma and we can get the show going, ‘K?”
“Sure thing.” Minako says while setting down her cat.
Rei heads back to the dining room to collect her fiancé. Finding him at the table discussing meditation techniques with her grandfather, she walks over and grabs him by the arm. “Come on, Minako is here with her cat, so it’s time to be my kitty again.”
“One cat?!” Ranma says in disbelief. “You can’t scare me enough with one cat! You know that Rei-chan, not unless you got a friend who owns a tiger.”
“One cat scared you enough yesterday, right?” Rei asks as she leads him to her bedroom. “A cute little purple and white kitty wasn’t it?”
“That wasn’t a cat!” Ranma retorts stubbornly as Rei shoves him into her bedroom. “That was my Amazon stalker wannabe wife in a murderous rage!”
“Don’t vorry Vanma-kun.” Minako says in her best evil Natasha voice as Rei closes the door behind her. “Ve haf vays of scaring you vith a cat.”
Ranma looks at her likes she’s insane and begins backing away. “Now, now V-chan. There’s no reason to be like that.” Ranma stammers. “You accepted my apology.”
“Now Ranma, you have to be more careful with secrets.” Rei says to him. “When she’s like this you have to call her Minako, or maybe Mina-chan if she lets you.”
“That’s right.” Minako says brightly. “You only get to call me V-chan when I’m wearing an indecently short seifuku like this.” Minako pulls out her Henshin Pen and says “Venus Crystal Power, Make Up!”
Ranma stares wide-eyed at Minako as she suddenly becomes naked and glows brightly while spinning around with a ribbon of stars trailing behind her Henshin Pen until the ribbon hides her from sight and in a flash of light she reappears dressed in an orange seikuku with white leotard, blue ribbons, and a short skirt that barely hides the bottom of her leotard while standing.
As soon as Sailor Venus stopped spinning and was dressed Rei steps out in front of Ranma and pulls out a red Henshin Pen and calls out “Mars Crystal Power, Make Up!” Stunning Ranma as she does a naked glowing dance before his eyes, but hers using flaming hoops instead of a ribbon and her seifuku was red with a purple ribbon.
Sailor Mars finished changing and looks over to see Ranma collapsed against the door with a vacant look to his eyes and two blood trails going down his face from his nose to his shit-eating grin and says “Whoops. I’ve gotten so used to doing this that I forgot the other reason we transform away from onlookers.”
“I didn’t.” Sailor Venus says, “This is revenge for him saying that I had a fat ass and dumpy legs. Yep, this showed him that my legs and ass are perfect! Ha! Lets see him insult my looks after this.”
Mars slowly turns around and looks at her friend in shock until she gets mad and yells “You intentionally did a striptease! in front of my fiancé! because he used to tease you about your looks!?” as her aura manifested as a red glow with a hot wind blowing her hair around and actual flames burning around her clenched fists.
The flames disappeared from Mars’s fists as she lunged forward and grabbed Sailor Venus by her long blonde hair causing her to scream “Itai!! My hair!” followed by her pleading “Not the face! Not the face!” when she saw Mars’s fist.
Sailor Mars cooled her ire a little and yanked Venus’s head down with her hair and unloaded a knee into her stomach and released her to slam into the wall and slump to the floor.
Venus was curled up on the floor gasping for breath realizing that she had really screwed up and needed to apologize immediately, so she uncurled, turned and twisted around until she was on her knees facing Mars and without any prior instruction she used the Mouko Rakuchi-sei by bowing low to Mars while saying “Gomen-nasai, gomen-nasai, I shouldn’t have done that. I was incredibly stupid and thoughtless, I forgot he was your fiancé, I only thought about getting even with Him.”
As she watched her friend grovel, Sailor Mars thought that this might be one of Saotome Genma’s most useful techniques as she caved in and went to help Venus up saying “OK, OK, you’re forgiven. I know you tend to act impulsively. Just don’t do it again.” After thinking for a second Mars says “Drag the Hentai into the closet while I get a glass of water, OK?”
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#Splash#
Ranma woke up a wet girl in a closet with Sailor Venus, Sailor Mars, and Artemis. Ranma-chan immediately scooted into the corner as far from Artemis as she could get in a closet.
"Now Mars, why are we in the closet in Senshi form?" Venus asks Mars.
"Well, I told you about how me and my family reduced Ranma's fear of cats with the Neko-Tolerance training we did. Well, the problem is that a cat needs to be Very Scary to put him into the Neko-Ken. I think we'll have to umm power up Artemis to scare Ranma."
"Can we do that? I mean I know we can combine powers, but can Arty handle that much power."
"I shouldn't need that much power, I'm not going to attack him, just power up a scary battle aura." Artemis says, "So just give me a little at a time, and I'll tell you when to stop."
So they start to push their power into the white cat until his hair is standing on end, his eyes are glowing, and an impressive Battle Aura is glowing around him. Venus is holding her cat up to Ranma-chan and Artemis is growling at Ranma, but Ranma isn't getting scared enough.
"Damn, I'm getting scared of Artemis and Ranma-san is still just standing there. Arty can you take any more?" Venus asks her cat.
"No way!” Artemis growls, “I'm almost burning up right now."
"Well, I know one trick that might do it. Sorry Artemis." Mars says as she grabs his tail and runs one hand up the tail petting the fur the wrong way.
"RROWL!!" Artemis yells in pain and anger digging his claws into Venus's arms as he whips around to face Mars, his battle aura changing to a hot feeling red as his fur huffs up.
Mars seeing that Ranma is finally getting scared trips Venus towards Ranma, and Venus tosses the angry cat at Ranma so that she can catch herself before she hits the floor.
Artemis grabs onto Ranma shirt and whips his head around to growl at Mars "GRRRAW! That HURT Mars, I'm going to get you for that!"
Artemis jumps off of Ranma-chan, scratching her on takeoff. Neko-Ranma-chan drops to all fours and lunges after him pinning Artemis to the floor under her hand before he could reach Mars. "RRrrrrr." Neko-Ranma-chan growls at the tomcat, telling him not to attack his friend the Nice-Girl.
"Ok Ok, I won't attack her. Mars, could you get me away from her, please?" Artemis cries out from the floor.
Mars goes over to Neko-teki Ranma-chan, and pets her head a little bit. "That's a good kitty, protecting me from that mean tomcat, but you can let him go now." She says lifting Neko-Ranma-chan's hand off of Artemis.
Venus quickly snatches up Artemis saying "Hey, Arty daijoubu?"
"I'm fine, a little bruised. He didn't slam me down that hard."
"Sorry about that Artemis," Mars says from where she was petting her fiancee, "You weren't being scary enough. Ranma can read auras and you weren't angry, so you weren't scaring him. I used to do that to the cats we used on Ranma before to get them angry. He wasn't scared of them otherwise."
"OK Mars, I’ll forgive you, but I want some of that catnip and sushi you got for your eh girlfriend there."
"Arty, you and your catnip. I swear you'll get hooked on that stuff." Venus scolds her moon cat advisor. "Hey Mars, do you mind if I pet your fiancé?"
"Sure, I wouldn't like him to dislike my friends. You better set Arty down though."
"Right, sh.he might not get along with another tomcat." Venus says putting Artemis down by the door, then walks over to them saying, "Hi there Neko-chan, you’re a nice kitty aren't you. You want to be friends." she says holding her hand out to Neko-Ranma-chan.
"Myah, prrrurrr, prrrurrr." Neko-teki Ranma-chan says butting her head against her hand.
"I'll take that as a yes. Oh you’re just a big sweet ferocious omnivore aren't you?" Venus says petting her hair and scratching under her chin, then doing behind her ears while Neko-Ranma-chan rubs up against her. Venus starts to pet her down the back, scratching and digging her fingers in to really get the big kitty to purr, and Mars goes back to petting her hair and working on her neck and ears.
Neko-Ranma-chan really likes the attention she’s getting from these two girls and rolls over onto her back and rubs against Mars’s legs.
"Hey! That's enough of that. She's a shameless flirt for attention." Artemis complains.
"Like you’re not. Hmmpf. I think you’re just jealous." Venus replies as she begins to rub and scratch the cat-girl’s belly and begins to work her way upwards.
Mars didn’t really see a problem with petting the cat-girl until about a minute later and she nudges Venus and says “I think that’s enough of that.”
“Why?” Venus asks, “She’s still enjoying it right?”
“Yeah, probably a little to much.” Mars says drawing Venus’s attention to where her hands were kneading Neko-Ranma-chan’s breasts through her shirt.
Sailor Venus yanks her hands back quickly and fell backwards onto her butt while blushing bright red with her mouth opening and closing with no words coming out, then she looks worriedly at Mars.
“Nevermind. You were thinking cat, not boy, or girl, as the case may be.” Mars says trying to save her friend some embarrassment. "Oh well, lets change back and take our cat-girl out to meet her adoring fans."
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Rei and Minako lead the nekofied martial artist out behind the shrine where everyone was waiting for them. Nabiki was there with her cousin Mizuno Ami, a man holding a video camera from Channel 6 NEWS and Detective Shipiro on one side, and Nodoka was with her father Masaki Katsuhito, her aunt Ayeka, and their friends Ryoko, and Washu.
Minako seeing the news camera gets an impish grin and does a spin showing off her outfit and says "Presenting our favorite cat-girl, it's Neko-Ranko-chan." pointing to the Neko-Onna in true game show girl fashion.
This earns her a glare from Rei, while everyone else gets a chuckle out of it.
Detective Shipiro steps forward saying "Well, how about we get the police business done first. I didn't come up with a good way to get a CAT to use its claws on a target, but someone suggested that a large cat would not hesitate to attack and kill a vicious dog, so I have brought a pit-bull that was scheduled to be put to sleep for mauling a young girl. I don't think any martial artist would object too much to killing a vicious animal as long it wasn't for sport."
After seeing that no one would object he went back and pulled a cage with wheels forward. "Excuse me Masaki-san could you hold one of the ropes to control the dog, I would have brought a K-9 officer but we wanted to keep down the number of people here."
"It's not a problem Detective. I'd be glad to be of service." He says coming forward and taking one of the ropes.
Nabiki brings out a plate of sushi and puts it down in front of Neko-Ranma-chan while the two men bring the pit-bull out with the ropes. The dog sees a person with some food and starts barking and tries to lunge forward but is stopped by the ropes.
Neko-Ranma-chan sees a loud and annoying vicious dog trying to get to his treat and starts growling and huffing up to protect his food.
"OK on three release the rope. Ready?" Getting the nod from Katsuhito, the detective counts down. "One, Two, THREE!" Shipiro says and they drop the ropes letting the dog charge forward to attack.
The dog runs straight in and when he reached a point 3 feet in front of Neko-Ranma-chan #THwap!# The dog was hit by a swat from four glowing red ki blades over 2 feet long. #Thump-thump-thump# The dog hit the ground about 8 feet to the side, stone-cold dead before if hit the ground. The front legs had been severed cleanly into five pieces, the skull was split by two deep claw marks and the neck was mostly cut through, and two claws had reached the chest, cutting through the ribs and slicing the lungs and heart.
Various exclamations of "Kuso" and "Kami" were heard from different people standing there looking at the wreckage of the pit-bull while Neko-Ranma-chan picks up a sushi roll and eats it.
When the detective pulls himself together he says "Well that certainly covers how she was able to kill the monster in the park. You can take her back inside. I’ll have the forensic crew clean up this mess. Thank you for your cooperation."
"Alright, lets walk around to the other side of the shrine and let the police clean up their mess. Come on Ranko-kitty." Rei says leading them around the shrine.
"Well, I think we learned an important lesson there." Nabiki says.
"Oh, what's that Nabiki-san." Katsuhito asks her.
"NEVER let Neko-teki Ranko-chan play with the neighbor's dog." she answers before everyone laughs. "Unless you hate the neighbor's dog." Nabiki says thoughtfully and they laugh some more.
"I know it happened pretty fast, but that claw attack didn't look right to me." Rei says, "It looked like she hit the dog before it was within reach."
"I agree." Katsuhito puts in, "It didn't look like claws extending from her fingers ever reached the dog."
"I'll give you my analysis for 2000 yen." Nabiki says putting out her hand.
"You'll never change Nabiki." Her cousin Ami complains forking over the money.
"Hey, I'm not that bad. But I agree, I don't think that was Ranko-neko's normal ki claw attack." Nabiki says to them, "That looked more like her Neko-Ken claws combined with a vacuum blade throwing technique called the Kijin Raishu Dan." Nabiki says analyzing the attack. "I think she managed to draw her claws through the air forming a set of ki blades that streaked forward to hit the dog. I'll have to go over the tape in slo-mo to make sure, but I'm pretty sure that Neko-Ranko-chan's claws hit the dog before it was within her reach. So it seems like Neko-teki Ranko-chan can use at least some of Ranko's advanced martial arts techniques."
"Hmm, the personalities may be getting closer together, so that skills and memories will be shared between the cat-mind and Ranko's mind." Washu muses.
"That's possible I suppose." Katsuhito says as Neko-Ranko-chan comes over and rubs against his leg. "At least she seems like a friendly cat." he says reaching down to rub her hair.
"It's almost unfortunate that we won't get to see her very often." Rei says sadly. "Ranko has become more and more resistant to her fear of cats. Unless attacked by a lion, tiger, or cat-demon she is unlikely to fall into the Neko-Ken anymore. It was very hard to scare her enough to have Neko-chan come out today, so why don't we enjoy what may be the last time we get to see her. #sniff#"
And so they sent the cameraman home but kept the news camera to make home movies promising to return it and let Channel 6 have some of the good footage. Neko-chan got petted by everyone, and Rei did her lion tamer impression but lost her whip to Neko-chan and had her chair reduced to kindling before being pounced and rolling around on the ground with the Neko-Onna. Katsuhito sparred with the kitty using his bokken, he got in a few hits, but also got scratched up a bit and bowled over a couple times. Ryoko got to roughhousing with Neko-Ranma-chan, wrestling with the cat and flying around throwing low-powered energy blasts while the cat-girl dodged and blocked the shots and kept leaping up trying to get Ryoko, ending up in the forest where Neko-chan ambushed Ryoko from the top of a tree and fell with her to the ground. Washu and Ami got lots of good readings and Nabiki got lots of good pictures, and Ayeka, Ami, and Minako played keep away with her after snatching a piece of sushi from Neko-chan. When it was getting towards lunchtime a played out Neko-Ranma-chan fell asleep on his mother's lap while being petted.
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This is a Ranma continuation and multi-cross-over with Sailor Moon, Tenchi Muyo!, Mermaid Saga, Ah Megami-sama and Mamono Hunter Yohko.
This is my first time writing a fan fiction, so please review and tell me what you think.
Ranma Crossing Over to the Wild Side
By Paul Bennett a.k.a. Shadowbakasama
Chapter 9: The Morning AfterBy Paul Bennett a.k.a. Shadowbakasama
Ranma was having trouble waking up. There was light coming in the window and he could smell breakfast, so why hadn't someone splashed him with cold water or thrown him out the window yet? Rolling over to look around Ranma doesn't recognize the room he's in.
Engaging his mind, Ranma thinks, 'Ok, not at the Tendo's or Mom's house. What did I do yesterday? ... Oh Kami, the WEDDING! I remember everything going to hell and Akane hitting me into the pond then Shampoo-Neko! ... Then I was in the bath with Rei-chan. / Man, is she Hot or what? / Yeah, I usually don't get a nosebleed, and she didn't even hit me or scream HENTAI like Akane does. That's right, I went Neko and she found me and brought me home with her. / She's your new fiancee. / Right, and I met her friends. / V-chan was so pissed. / Yeah, I apologized, but I've got to make it up to her, I pulled some really nasty tricks on her in when we were in England. / At least she seems to have given up on revenge. / Well, I guess she decided that I've had more than enough suffering. I can't believe I broke down in front of those girls. / Scared the hell out of them. / Yeah, Usagi threw up, V-chan broke down and cried, Makoto, . . . she was praying for me, and Rei-chan came over and hugged me until I felt better. / Akane isn't the #1 fiancee anymore. / Well, now I've got a year to get rid of the other fiancees. / I smell breakfast! / Time to get up.'
After a quick wash up and a dip in the furo to change back Ranma gets dressed just in time to join Rei and her grandfather for breakfast.
"Ranma-kun are you ready to start the Neko-tolerance training again?" the elderly priest asks.
"Kami, I have to do that again?" Ranma complains, "Didn't you find anything else to help, like a meditation technique or hypnosis, anything but c-cats."
"I only started looking yesterday, I made a few calls to some associates of mine, I'm hoping that they may have dealt with something like this before." Grandpa Hino says. "One of them is coming over soon, he is your best chance since he has been around for more than 700 years."
"He's not all shrunken and shriveled up is he?"
"No, he doesn't look his age. Actually he disguises his youth and assumes a new identity every so often. His life force is bonded to that of a majestic tree that keeps him young, and gifts him with some mystic powers. He came to Tokyo yesterday when he saw the news of a Neko-Onna on the loose, so maybe he has had some experience with the Neko-Ken."
"However," Rei interrupts them, "you promised the police a demonstration of the Neko-Ken, so Minako-chan is bringing Artemis over in an hour. Nabiki-san is also coming over with your Mom and a few others."
"Alright Rei-chan, I'll do it, but it takes quite a bit to force me into the Neko-Ken anymore. I'm not sure a regular c-c- feline can scare me enough anymore. The last two times it has been Shampoo, my amazon fiancee, in her c-c- mouse chaser form. And she was right in my face with her c-claws in me, and y-yowling at me. The time before that it was a t-TIGER. I just don't think a normal c-c-c house pet will scare me enough anymore."
"Well, it seems like the Neko-Tolerance training did some good after all, right Rei-chan."
"That's true, I doubt Shampoo could have scared me enough if not for her angry Battle Aura, and the fact that I had just been attacked with bombs and a Mallet-User having a serious conniption fit over the wedding disaster."
"We'll have to come up with something to make Artemis scary. I'll give Mina a call and have come over early."
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Rei had excused herself to call Minako, but brought out her Senshi Communicator to call up her Princess first. ... And then called up Minako on the phone while waiting for Usagi to wake up and answer her communicator.
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Luna woke up instantly when she heard the buzz of the Comm on the desk. After checking Usagi and seeing that she was dead to the world still, she jumped to the desk and answered the Comm to see Rei.
“Ohayo Mars, what do you need the Princess for this early in the morning? ... .... You want to tell your fiancé about being Sailor Mars. I didn’t even know you had a boyfriend after Yuuichiro took off with that, uh, what did you call her? A die-job teeni-bopper little idol singer slut? ... ... Sorry, I shouldn’t have brought that up. But I loved your comeback when she said your legs were tied together at the knees, telling her that she knees were locked wide open with a spreader-bar for anyone was devastating, especially with those reporters there. ... ... OK, back to business. Who’s you fiancé and why does he need to know about Sailor Mars? ... ... But that was a Cat-GIRL that you took home yesterday! ... A sex-changing curse!? Are you on catnip Rei!? ... Oh, Usagi saw him demonstrate it yesterday. Well she didn’t tell me anything when she got back since it was so late. ... ... He Knows Minako was Sailor V!? How!? ... ... He used to fight her when she was in England! And you want to tell him/ ... ... Oh, OK, keeping his father out of jail. Wait! This is the boy that kept beating her up, insulting her, and embarrassing her that Artemis told me about!? She absolutely hates that guy. ... ... She actually forgave him? ... ... Couldn’t come up with any tortures that would compare with the way he was raised? ... ... His Own Father Taught Him the Neko-Ken!! ... And got him cursed to turn into a girl. ... Those are just the worst! ... ... His whole life is like that? Gimme another example. ... ... Venom resistance conditioning with deadly snakes. Right, Minako could torture him for years before he would even notice. ... ... His other fiancee beats him with a sledgehammer?! ... For almost two years! No wonder Minako just dropped it, she’s far too nice a girl. I can hardly imagine what this guy has been through. ... ... You want him to fight with us? What can he do besides the Neko-Ken? ... ... A battle aura that filled half the dining room? ... ... Scared you and your grandfather that bad hunh? ... ... His feet were ten centimeters off the floor!? Did you notice anything else from his aura? ... Well of course you noticed he was angry, I mean other uncontrolled effects from his battle aura. ... It would tell us some of what he can do with his ki. ... Hot and cold winds. ... Dishes levitating off the table. Any ozone or electrical arcing? ... No, well that is a pretty rare ki ability anyway. How about his martial arts ranking? ... Almost unbeaten over there in Nerima. Yeah, that’s impressive. ... ... You mean they get youma over in Nerima? I never knew that. ... ... Oh, he can actually track the youma’s ki like you can. You might as well tell him then, we could never hide our identities from him if he can do that. ... ... What, you didn’t know that your grandfather knew?! Why do you think we always meet at your shrine? ... ... Yeah, well remember the first thing you did when you met Usagi? ... ... That’s right you slapped a Ward on her forehead because you sensed something strange about her, and you never thought about your grandfather picking the Senshi out with their auras. ... Yeah, it does seem silly doesn’t it. I’ll let Usagi know when she wakes up. ... Later Mars.”
Luna thinks about Rei’s grandfather for a minute and realizes that the old man had twice actually had the enemy working in the shrine. ‘So much for his ki senses, he probably found out by spying on us then.’
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Rei puts away her Comm and then looks around to see if her grandfather was spying on her again. Not seeing him around she grabs the phone and dials up Minako’s house.
After a few rings a sleepy sounding Minako answers the phone. “Ohayo Mina-chan it’s Rei. ... ... I need you to come over with Artemis early. ... ... Well, I should explain when you get here. ... Yeah. ... Uh hunh. ... That’s right. ... ... OK then I’ll see you in about half an hour. ... Yeah. Bye.”
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Half an hour later Rei met Minako and Artemis out on the steps to the shrine.
“Ohayo. Sorry I had to get you two here this early.” Rei says as the climb up to her. “But since Ranma already knows about you being Sailor V, and has well developed ki senses it’s pretty useless trying to hide our Senshi identities from him. Besides we want him fighting with us if we can.”
“Yeah, sounds a lot better than fighting Him.” Minako says. “Having Ranma kicking ass on our side will be a very welcome turn around.”
“Eh heh, right.” Rei says nervously, remembering that her friend had been on the receiving end of Ranma’s martial arts skills before. “One word of warning, don’t do anything to upset Ranma while he is in the Neko-Ken.”
“You don’t need to tell me Rei.” Minako says. “Remember, I was the one who watched your cat-girl turn a monster into chopped meat.”
“Right right. I’ve seen Neko-chan reduce a tree to toothpicks, but you’ve seen him kill.” Rei says. “Big difference. Ranma can be scary enough without being a cat let me tell you. Me and Gramps teased him about his curse before you came over last night and set him off.”
“Oh really?” Minako asks, “What did he do that was so scary?”
“Nothing much,” Rei answers. “He just filled the dining room with his flaming red battle aura and hot wind as he levitated just off the floor and caused the plates to lift off the table while glaring at us and giving us what for.”
“Damn, that’s intense.” Artemis says. “Mina-chan can manage a red aura and hot wind, but Ranma’s sounds huge and includes Telekinesis and Levitation as well as the more common Pyrokinesis.”
“He can also do cold.” Rei tells him. “And I think he has control over the winds, not to mention what he can use that ki for in his martial arts.”
“Well, I know some of what he can do with it.” Minako says. “Even three years ago he could do incredible feats of speed and strength, and now he’s a legend in Nerima from what Makoto says.”
“Yeah, what is up with that?” Rei asks. “He’s not her infamous Sempai is he?”
“Heh heh heh, no he’s not.” Minako tells her. “He used to beat up her Sempai when they were in Junior High. I guess he teased and insulted the poor guy like he used to do with me, because the guy took off after Ranma on a quest for vengeance when Ranma left the neighborhood, and that was the last time Mako-chan ever saw her Sempai.”
“Then why was she looking at him with those starry eyes?” Rei demands. “You’d think she’d at least be a bit mad about that.”
“I think she recently got over her Sempai.” Minako explains. “He became obsessed with revenge and blamed everything bad in his life on Ranma. He was also obsessing over his rival’s fiancee and recently got hooked up with another girl.”
“Oh. That’s too bad.” Rei says while opening the door and letting Minako in. “How did Mako-chan find out about this?” She asks as she closes the door and leads Minako back to her bedroom.
“I guess that she read about it in those Nerima Newsletters that she gets.” Minako guesses. “That is where she got all that information about Ranma from.”
“I’ll have to borrow those from her.” Rei muses as she lets Minako and Artemis into her room. “Hide Artemis in the closet. I’ll go get Ranma and we can get the show going, ‘K?”
“Sure thing.” Minako says while setting down her cat.
Rei heads back to the dining room to collect her fiancé. Finding him at the table discussing meditation techniques with her grandfather, she walks over and grabs him by the arm. “Come on, Minako is here with her cat, so it’s time to be my kitty again.”
“One cat?!” Ranma says in disbelief. “You can’t scare me enough with one cat! You know that Rei-chan, not unless you got a friend who owns a tiger.”
“One cat scared you enough yesterday, right?” Rei asks as she leads him to her bedroom. “A cute little purple and white kitty wasn’t it?”
“That wasn’t a cat!” Ranma retorts stubbornly as Rei shoves him into her bedroom. “That was my Amazon stalker wannabe wife in a murderous rage!”
“Don’t vorry Vanma-kun.” Minako says in her best evil Natasha voice as Rei closes the door behind her. “Ve haf vays of scaring you vith a cat.”
Ranma looks at her likes she’s insane and begins backing away. “Now, now V-chan. There’s no reason to be like that.” Ranma stammers. “You accepted my apology.”
“Now Ranma, you have to be more careful with secrets.” Rei says to him. “When she’s like this you have to call her Minako, or maybe Mina-chan if she lets you.”
“That’s right.” Minako says brightly. “You only get to call me V-chan when I’m wearing an indecently short seifuku like this.” Minako pulls out her Henshin Pen and says “Venus Crystal Power, Make Up!”
Ranma stares wide-eyed at Minako as she suddenly becomes naked and glows brightly while spinning around with a ribbon of stars trailing behind her Henshin Pen until the ribbon hides her from sight and in a flash of light she reappears dressed in an orange seikuku with white leotard, blue ribbons, and a short skirt that barely hides the bottom of her leotard while standing.
As soon as Sailor Venus stopped spinning and was dressed Rei steps out in front of Ranma and pulls out a red Henshin Pen and calls out “Mars Crystal Power, Make Up!” Stunning Ranma as she does a naked glowing dance before his eyes, but hers using flaming hoops instead of a ribbon and her seifuku was red with a purple ribbon.
Sailor Mars finished changing and looks over to see Ranma collapsed against the door with a vacant look to his eyes and two blood trails going down his face from his nose to his shit-eating grin and says “Whoops. I’ve gotten so used to doing this that I forgot the other reason we transform away from onlookers.”
“I didn’t.” Sailor Venus says, “This is revenge for him saying that I had a fat ass and dumpy legs. Yep, this showed him that my legs and ass are perfect! Ha! Lets see him insult my looks after this.”
Mars slowly turns around and looks at her friend in shock until she gets mad and yells “You intentionally did a striptease! in front of my fiancé! because he used to tease you about your looks!?” as her aura manifested as a red glow with a hot wind blowing her hair around and actual flames burning around her clenched fists.
The flames disappeared from Mars’s fists as she lunged forward and grabbed Sailor Venus by her long blonde hair causing her to scream “Itai!! My hair!” followed by her pleading “Not the face! Not the face!” when she saw Mars’s fist.
Sailor Mars cooled her ire a little and yanked Venus’s head down with her hair and unloaded a knee into her stomach and released her to slam into the wall and slump to the floor.
Venus was curled up on the floor gasping for breath realizing that she had really screwed up and needed to apologize immediately, so she uncurled, turned and twisted around until she was on her knees facing Mars and without any prior instruction she used the Mouko Rakuchi-sei by bowing low to Mars while saying “Gomen-nasai, gomen-nasai, I shouldn’t have done that. I was incredibly stupid and thoughtless, I forgot he was your fiancé, I only thought about getting even with Him.”
As she watched her friend grovel, Sailor Mars thought that this might be one of Saotome Genma’s most useful techniques as she caved in and went to help Venus up saying “OK, OK, you’re forgiven. I know you tend to act impulsively. Just don’t do it again.” After thinking for a second Mars says “Drag the Hentai into the closet while I get a glass of water, OK?”
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#Splash#
Ranma woke up a wet girl in a closet with Sailor Venus, Sailor Mars, and Artemis. Ranma-chan immediately scooted into the corner as far from Artemis as she could get in a closet.
"Now Mars, why are we in the closet in Senshi form?" Venus asks Mars.
"Well, I told you about how me and my family reduced Ranma's fear of cats with the Neko-Tolerance training we did. Well, the problem is that a cat needs to be Very Scary to put him into the Neko-Ken. I think we'll have to umm power up Artemis to scare Ranma."
"Can we do that? I mean I know we can combine powers, but can Arty handle that much power."
"I shouldn't need that much power, I'm not going to attack him, just power up a scary battle aura." Artemis says, "So just give me a little at a time, and I'll tell you when to stop."
So they start to push their power into the white cat until his hair is standing on end, his eyes are glowing, and an impressive Battle Aura is glowing around him. Venus is holding her cat up to Ranma-chan and Artemis is growling at Ranma, but Ranma isn't getting scared enough.
"Damn, I'm getting scared of Artemis and Ranma-san is still just standing there. Arty can you take any more?" Venus asks her cat.
"No way!” Artemis growls, “I'm almost burning up right now."
"Well, I know one trick that might do it. Sorry Artemis." Mars says as she grabs his tail and runs one hand up the tail petting the fur the wrong way.
"RROWL!!" Artemis yells in pain and anger digging his claws into Venus's arms as he whips around to face Mars, his battle aura changing to a hot feeling red as his fur huffs up.
Mars seeing that Ranma is finally getting scared trips Venus towards Ranma, and Venus tosses the angry cat at Ranma so that she can catch herself before she hits the floor.
Artemis grabs onto Ranma shirt and whips his head around to growl at Mars "GRRRAW! That HURT Mars, I'm going to get you for that!"
Artemis jumps off of Ranma-chan, scratching her on takeoff. Neko-Ranma-chan drops to all fours and lunges after him pinning Artemis to the floor under her hand before he could reach Mars. "RRrrrrr." Neko-Ranma-chan growls at the tomcat, telling him not to attack his friend the Nice-Girl.
"Ok Ok, I won't attack her. Mars, could you get me away from her, please?" Artemis cries out from the floor.
Mars goes over to Neko-teki Ranma-chan, and pets her head a little bit. "That's a good kitty, protecting me from that mean tomcat, but you can let him go now." She says lifting Neko-Ranma-chan's hand off of Artemis.
Venus quickly snatches up Artemis saying "Hey, Arty daijoubu?"
"I'm fine, a little bruised. He didn't slam me down that hard."
"Sorry about that Artemis," Mars says from where she was petting her fiancee, "You weren't being scary enough. Ranma can read auras and you weren't angry, so you weren't scaring him. I used to do that to the cats we used on Ranma before to get them angry. He wasn't scared of them otherwise."
"OK Mars, I’ll forgive you, but I want some of that catnip and sushi you got for your eh girlfriend there."
"Arty, you and your catnip. I swear you'll get hooked on that stuff." Venus scolds her moon cat advisor. "Hey Mars, do you mind if I pet your fiancé?"
"Sure, I wouldn't like him to dislike my friends. You better set Arty down though."
"Right, sh.he might not get along with another tomcat." Venus says putting Artemis down by the door, then walks over to them saying, "Hi there Neko-chan, you’re a nice kitty aren't you. You want to be friends." she says holding her hand out to Neko-Ranma-chan.
"Myah, prrrurrr, prrrurrr." Neko-teki Ranma-chan says butting her head against her hand.
"I'll take that as a yes. Oh you’re just a big sweet ferocious omnivore aren't you?" Venus says petting her hair and scratching under her chin, then doing behind her ears while Neko-Ranma-chan rubs up against her. Venus starts to pet her down the back, scratching and digging her fingers in to really get the big kitty to purr, and Mars goes back to petting her hair and working on her neck and ears.
Neko-Ranma-chan really likes the attention she’s getting from these two girls and rolls over onto her back and rubs against Mars’s legs.
"Hey! That's enough of that. She's a shameless flirt for attention." Artemis complains.
"Like you’re not. Hmmpf. I think you’re just jealous." Venus replies as she begins to rub and scratch the cat-girl’s belly and begins to work her way upwards.
Mars didn’t really see a problem with petting the cat-girl until about a minute later and she nudges Venus and says “I think that’s enough of that.”
“Why?” Venus asks, “She’s still enjoying it right?”
“Yeah, probably a little to much.” Mars says drawing Venus’s attention to where her hands were kneading Neko-Ranma-chan’s breasts through her shirt.
Sailor Venus yanks her hands back quickly and fell backwards onto her butt while blushing bright red with her mouth opening and closing with no words coming out, then she looks worriedly at Mars.
“Nevermind. You were thinking cat, not boy, or girl, as the case may be.” Mars says trying to save her friend some embarrassment. "Oh well, lets change back and take our cat-girl out to meet her adoring fans."
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Rei and Minako lead the nekofied martial artist out behind the shrine where everyone was waiting for them. Nabiki was there with her cousin Mizuno Ami, a man holding a video camera from Channel 6 NEWS and Detective Shipiro on one side, and Nodoka was with her father Masaki Katsuhito, her aunt Ayeka, and their friends Ryoko, and Washu.
Minako seeing the news camera gets an impish grin and does a spin showing off her outfit and says "Presenting our favorite cat-girl, it's Neko-Ranko-chan." pointing to the Neko-Onna in true game show girl fashion.
This earns her a glare from Rei, while everyone else gets a chuckle out of it.
Detective Shipiro steps forward saying "Well, how about we get the police business done first. I didn't come up with a good way to get a CAT to use its claws on a target, but someone suggested that a large cat would not hesitate to attack and kill a vicious dog, so I have brought a pit-bull that was scheduled to be put to sleep for mauling a young girl. I don't think any martial artist would object too much to killing a vicious animal as long it wasn't for sport."
After seeing that no one would object he went back and pulled a cage with wheels forward. "Excuse me Masaki-san could you hold one of the ropes to control the dog, I would have brought a K-9 officer but we wanted to keep down the number of people here."
"It's not a problem Detective. I'd be glad to be of service." He says coming forward and taking one of the ropes.
Nabiki brings out a plate of sushi and puts it down in front of Neko-Ranma-chan while the two men bring the pit-bull out with the ropes. The dog sees a person with some food and starts barking and tries to lunge forward but is stopped by the ropes.
Neko-Ranma-chan sees a loud and annoying vicious dog trying to get to his treat and starts growling and huffing up to protect his food.
"OK on three release the rope. Ready?" Getting the nod from Katsuhito, the detective counts down. "One, Two, THREE!" Shipiro says and they drop the ropes letting the dog charge forward to attack.
The dog runs straight in and when he reached a point 3 feet in front of Neko-Ranma-chan #THwap!# The dog was hit by a swat from four glowing red ki blades over 2 feet long. #Thump-thump-thump# The dog hit the ground about 8 feet to the side, stone-cold dead before if hit the ground. The front legs had been severed cleanly into five pieces, the skull was split by two deep claw marks and the neck was mostly cut through, and two claws had reached the chest, cutting through the ribs and slicing the lungs and heart.
Various exclamations of "Kuso" and "Kami" were heard from different people standing there looking at the wreckage of the pit-bull while Neko-Ranma-chan picks up a sushi roll and eats it.
When the detective pulls himself together he says "Well that certainly covers how she was able to kill the monster in the park. You can take her back inside. I’ll have the forensic crew clean up this mess. Thank you for your cooperation."
"Alright, lets walk around to the other side of the shrine and let the police clean up their mess. Come on Ranko-kitty." Rei says leading them around the shrine.
"Well, I think we learned an important lesson there." Nabiki says.
"Oh, what's that Nabiki-san." Katsuhito asks her.
"NEVER let Neko-teki Ranko-chan play with the neighbor's dog." she answers before everyone laughs. "Unless you hate the neighbor's dog." Nabiki says thoughtfully and they laugh some more.
"I know it happened pretty fast, but that claw attack didn't look right to me." Rei says, "It looked like she hit the dog before it was within reach."
"I agree." Katsuhito puts in, "It didn't look like claws extending from her fingers ever reached the dog."
"I'll give you my analysis for 2000 yen." Nabiki says putting out her hand.
"You'll never change Nabiki." Her cousin Ami complains forking over the money.
"Hey, I'm not that bad. But I agree, I don't think that was Ranko-neko's normal ki claw attack." Nabiki says to them, "That looked more like her Neko-Ken claws combined with a vacuum blade throwing technique called the Kijin Raishu Dan." Nabiki says analyzing the attack. "I think she managed to draw her claws through the air forming a set of ki blades that streaked forward to hit the dog. I'll have to go over the tape in slo-mo to make sure, but I'm pretty sure that Neko-Ranko-chan's claws hit the dog before it was within her reach. So it seems like Neko-teki Ranko-chan can use at least some of Ranko's advanced martial arts techniques."
"Hmm, the personalities may be getting closer together, so that skills and memories will be shared between the cat-mind and Ranko's mind." Washu muses.
"That's possible I suppose." Katsuhito says as Neko-Ranko-chan comes over and rubs against his leg. "At least she seems like a friendly cat." he says reaching down to rub her hair.
"It's almost unfortunate that we won't get to see her very often." Rei says sadly. "Ranko has become more and more resistant to her fear of cats. Unless attacked by a lion, tiger, or cat-demon she is unlikely to fall into the Neko-Ken anymore. It was very hard to scare her enough to have Neko-chan come out today, so why don't we enjoy what may be the last time we get to see her. #sniff#"
And so they sent the cameraman home but kept the news camera to make home movies promising to return it and let Channel 6 have some of the good footage. Neko-chan got petted by everyone, and Rei did her lion tamer impression but lost her whip to Neko-chan and had her chair reduced to kindling before being pounced and rolling around on the ground with the Neko-Onna. Katsuhito sparred with the kitty using his bokken, he got in a few hits, but also got scratched up a bit and bowled over a couple times. Ryoko got to roughhousing with Neko-Ranma-chan, wrestling with the cat and flying around throwing low-powered energy blasts while the cat-girl dodged and blocked the shots and kept leaping up trying to get Ryoko, ending up in the forest where Neko-chan ambushed Ryoko from the top of a tree and fell with her to the ground. Washu and Ami got lots of good readings and Nabiki got lots of good pictures, and Ayeka, Ami, and Minako played keep away with her after snatching a piece of sushi from Neko-chan. When it was getting towards lunchtime a played out Neko-Ranma-chan fell asleep on his mother's lap while being petted.
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